#etfs — Wealth & Means
Episodes tagged #etfs on Wealth & Means.
- Episode 11: Noise, Signal, and the Long Game — 2026-01-09
Episode 11 follows one thread from culture through markets to history: what looks like noise often turns out to be signal. Minecraft as prestige television. Fan trailers outpacing studios. Cloud gaming drifting toward subscriptions. Podcasts winning on trust. And the Wright brothers, who beat everyone with a bicycle shop and a homemade wind tunnel. - Episode 10: Potatoes, Prediction Markets, and Perfect Molecules — 2025-12-19
Episode 10 opens with the internet's December coping mechanisms, moves through prediction markets as a new financial layer, circular manufacturing's cultural moment, a Knowledge Bomb on index investing, and the inventor who turned the humble potato into a case study in global economic transformation. - Stocks, ETFs, or Mutual Funds? Welcome to Investing — 2025-12-15
For a new investor with a 10+ year horizon, the first real question is: stocks, ETFs, or mutual funds? A plain-English breakdown of how each works, what they cost, how they're taxed, and how to actually combine them into a simple, durable portfolio.